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Saturday Schools Our immediate concern is to take direct action to assist children in inner city areas who go to failing state schools and whose parents cannot afford to pay fees. We are currently providing ten Saturday schools for over 200 children every week. The vast majority are from ethnic minorities determined to help their children achieve their personal best. Read on New model school State education often fails the most disadvantaged members of society. Is it possible to run an independent charitable school, accepting no funding from the state, in such a way as to bring the fees within the reach of more people? We have now set up a company which has opened a new model school in London with fees of less than £5,000 a year.
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May 16, 2008Two Nottingham students arrested on terrorism chargesTwo men have been arrested at the University of Nottingham under the Terrorism Act. Police said the men, aged 30 and 22, were arrested on Wednesday morning. One is reported to be a student and the other a former student. Campus premises related to the two men are being searched. Continue reading "Two Nottingham students arrested on terrorism charges" » May 15, 2008Victory for Channel 4The West Midlands Police and Crown Prosecution Service have today been forced to apologise 'unreservedly' in the High Court and pay £50,000 damages to Channel 4's Dispatches programme 'Undercover Mosque.' Readers will remember that the Dispatches programme, broadcast last year (and view-able here), showed preachers at a number of British mosques making comments which were anti-semitic, sexist and homophobic. But in an astounding decision, the police decided to investigate not the preachers of hate, but the Dispatches crew themselves, attempting to charge them with stirring up racial hatred. May 13, 2008The Cure for the Country’s Epidemic of Violent Crime is Not Rocket ScienceWho can fail but to be deeply moved, if not humbled, by the magnanimous words of compassion spoken by the mother of sixteen year old Jimmy Mizen, London’s latest teenage murder victim? They were directed at the family of her son’s suspected killer, another local teenager for whom the police are searching and whose family the victim’s own are believed to know. Continue reading "The Cure for the Country’s Epidemic of Violent Crime is Not Rocket Science" » May 12, 2008Former jihadist arrested by British policeHassan Butt, a former member of al-Muhajiroun who claims to have rejected jihadist ideology, has been arrested by British police under anti-terrorism laws. Butt was arrested at Manchester airport on Saturday as he tried to board a flight to the city of Lahore in Pakistan. According to the Manchester Evening News he had brought his ticket for the flight just 45 minutes before it was due to depart. Continue reading "Former jihadist arrested by British police" » May 9, 2008Norman Kember offers financial assistance to Abu QatadaPeace campaigner and former hostage in Iraq Norman Kember has said that he is helping to fund radical preacher’s Abu Qatada’s bail. Abu Qatada, who won an appeal against deportation which the government is currently trying to overturn, had appealed for Kember’s release when he was captured by the militant Swords of Truth group in Iraq in 2005. Continue reading "Norman Kember offers financial assistance to Abu Qatada" » |
Crimes of the Community examines how ideas of honour can lead to violence. Examining forced marriages, honour killings, female genital mutilation (FGM) and honour-based domestic violence, the report explains why such violence is carried out and why it continues. Based on over 80 interviews with women's groups, community activists and the victims of honour-based violence, Crimes of the Community is the most comprehensive study of honour-based violence ever conducted in the UK.
On 20th November, the Centre for Social Cohesion hosted an evening debate in Westminster between Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the former Dutch MP and self-declared Muslim apostate, and Ed Husain, the author of the best-selling book The Islamist.
